If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.