What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.