But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

Invention breeds invention.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.