We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.