The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

Impatience never commanded success.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.