Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.