No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

Let me stand in my age with all its waters flowing round me. If they sometimes subdue, they must finally upbear me, for I seek the universal-and that must be the best.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

All greatness affects different minds, each in "its own particular kind," and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor became identical.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.