Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.