I think no virtue goes with size.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.