Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.