Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

I think no virtue goes with size.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.