There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

You don't know your testament when you see it.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.