I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.