Activity is contagious..

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it..

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the persona….

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any….

Every action has an ancestor of a thought..

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices….

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men..

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate..

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect..

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, th….

Blame is safer than praise.

Every noble activity makes room for itself..

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims..

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain..

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love..

The shot heard round the world..

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation..

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself….

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands..

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelentin….

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!.