How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.