Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.