The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

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

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.