Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.