Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.