Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.