What you are comes to you.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.