Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Science finds it methods.

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.