A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.