There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.