Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Humility is the secret of the wise.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

My giant goes with me wherever I go.