What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

The highest virtue is always against the law.

I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.