No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.