Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.