The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.