The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.