In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.