Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.