It is only when the mind and character slumber that dress can be seen.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense of mind.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs,

"The Gods are to each other not unknown."

Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.

Character is higher than intellect.