For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.