The soul circumscribes all things.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.