Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.