Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

A great teacher makes hard things easy.

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.