It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

The beautiful is never plentiful.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.