Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.