If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.