There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.