Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

The eye of prudence may never shut.

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.