To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.