Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.