"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,  As the swift seasons roll!  Leave thy low-vaulted past!"

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."