I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?