The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.