History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.