The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.