Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.