A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.