The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.