Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?