In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.