The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.