To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

We put our love where we have put our labor.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.