Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

I am become a transparent eyeball.