You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.