I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.