For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

Ability without honor has no value.