Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations