We put our love where we have put our labor.

Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.