The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.