Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.