We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

Truth is the summit of being.