Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

A man is related to all nature.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.