Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!