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.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Love is the essence of God.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.