There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.