Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.