Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.