When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.