All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.