A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.