Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.