Men are better than this theology.

The key to every man is his thought.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.