The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

Some will always be above others.

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

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Education should be as broad as man.

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.