Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

Fear is a great instructor.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.