Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.