The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.