Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

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.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.