Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.