You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.