Life is to be lived, not controlled.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.