Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

I like people who like Plato.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.