The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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?

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.