The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.