In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

First be a good animal.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

There is one mind common to all individual men