An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.