Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.