Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Excellence is the new forever.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.