The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.