I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

We wake from one dream into another dream.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.