If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
The street is full of humiliations to the proud.
There is one mind common to all individual men
In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.