The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

Every wall is a door.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Language is the archives of history.