The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty....
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns every thing to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm.
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty....
Within man is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the Eternal One.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will find it not.
The only true gift is a portion of thyself.
Novels will give way, by and by, to diaries or autobiographies - captivating books, if only a man knew how to choose among what he calls his experiences that which is really his experience, and how to record truth truly.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.