Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.