No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

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

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.