Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.