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

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.