People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.