We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

In imitation is a bit suicide.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.