As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

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

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

Do what you're afraid to do.

All vigor is contagious.

Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.