We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong