If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?