Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.