What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.