The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

Things do not change; we change.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.