A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

New arts destroy the old.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.