Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.