I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!

Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.