Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

A man is related to all nature.