The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.