Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
I am a part and parcel of God.
The dearest events are summer-rain.
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."