It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.