A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene..

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvin….

Power educates the potentate..

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage..

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, usin….

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand..

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms..

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs..

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent..

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the m….

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbin….

Labor is God's education..

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time..

Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole..

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can..

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe..

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry..

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts..

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest..

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not….

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce..