I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.