The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

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

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.