There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.