Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.