If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.