To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
We can only obey our own polarity.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.