Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.