Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.