An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.