A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.