To be gret is to be misunderstood.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.