Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
Nature is saturated with Deity.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.