Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.