What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

No institution will be better than the institutor.

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.