Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs,

"The Gods are to each other not unknown."

Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.