The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.