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

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.

Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Liberty is a slow fruit.