Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Pure by impure is not seen.
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.