Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'