Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

We can only obey our own polarity.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.