Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.