The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.