It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.