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.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.