The pest of society is egotists.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere