The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.