It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Impatience never commanded success.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.