The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.