Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?