Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.