The world is all outside, it has no inside.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.