The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.