Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.