The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.