The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.