Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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.