The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.