Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.