Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.