After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

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

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.