Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

The force of character is cumulative.

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.