We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.