I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought