It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.