I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.