Souls are not saved in bundles.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

The life of truth is cold.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.