The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.