The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.