The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.