The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

We can only obey our own polarity.

Our best history is still poetry.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.