There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

No institution will be better than the institutor.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.