A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.