January 27.
The beauties of transition and those of isolation.
The sublime is the summit of the great.
Religion. Yes, everyone finds it good for others, but no one finds it good for himself. Yet have some yourself if you want others to have it.
That skillful cradle-rocker, so fertile in fables.
The sublime author walks from summit to summit.
January 29.
Mediocrity of mind, mediocrity of cultivation, mediocrity of knowledge, mediocrity of fortune, happy mediocrities.
February 1.
— Yes. For the marrow of the brain thinks.
Superstitions are to religion what fable is to poetry.
Note. God is a great poet, a great lawgiver, etc., a great maker or machinist.
Pious souls are all of the sublime kind. Yet sublime souls rarely confine themselves to being pious.
The passions come like smallpox and disfigure this original beauty.
February 10.
The people. They know how to discern, but they do not know how to choose.