Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.