American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?