We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.