The finest poetry was first experience.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.