The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.