In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight..

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment..

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspe….

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-hous….

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence..

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous..

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best..

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong..

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would..

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical..

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall..

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse..

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth..

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone befo….

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined ….

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien..

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but….

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard..

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?.

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols..

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form..