Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.