The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.