The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.