Thought is the seed of action.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Our best thoughts come from others.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.