[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.