All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Eyes...They speak all languages.