If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.