Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.