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

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.