The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.