A man often pays dear for a small frugality.
But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.