The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

Wherever there is power there is age.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.