Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.