By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.