Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.