Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.