Thought makes everything fit for use.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.