If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

Reality is a sliding door.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.