Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!