Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.