When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

New earths, new themes expect us.