We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.