Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.