Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.