Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.