Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.