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

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.

America is a country of young men.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.