Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.