We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.