Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Our best history is still poetry.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.