I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.