Look out! Behind you!

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.