They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.