Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.