Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

Do your thing, and I shall know you.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!