Some people are born very far from home.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

The less government we have the better.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.