Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.