The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.