I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

Hate can pardon more than love.

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

I am a majority of one.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.