Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.