The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.