Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.