The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Men are better than this theology.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

Every word was once a poem.