Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.