It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.