If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

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.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.