A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painf….

We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have a….

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth..

Our moods do not believe in each other..

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person..

When it is dark enough, men see the stars..

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human….

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of ….

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature..

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere..

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him ….

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence..

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire..

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts..

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one..

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty..

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fa….

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so muc….

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with….