"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands" — Michelangelo

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Source: Walden (1854)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

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