Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.