Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.