Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.