Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.