The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.