The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.