Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.