After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

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