We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.