Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.