Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.