Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.