The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.