He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

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.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.