The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.