He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.