Any Supreme Insight Is A Metaphor.

The Safest Words Are Always Those Which Bring Us Most Directly To Facts.

A Man's Longest Purposes Will Be His Best Purposes. It Is True, Life Is Short And Uncertain; But It Is Better To Live On The Short Arc Of A Large Circle Than To Describe The Whole Circumference Of A Small Circle.

Every Thought Was Once A Poem.

It Is All A Mistake That We Cannot Be Good And Manly Without Being Scrupulously And Studiously Good. There Is Too Much Mechanism About Our Virtue.

The Heart Has Eyes Which The Brain Knows Nothing Of.