The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.