Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices..

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear….

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go..

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments….

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey..

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old..

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade..

No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way….

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done just….

Music is the poor man's Parnassus..

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more..

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes..

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of cal….

Knowledge exists to be imparted..

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children..

An action is the perfection and publication of thought..

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;….

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to..

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer ….

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain..

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons..