What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.