Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Skill to do comes of doing.

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.