Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.