This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.