Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Our best history is still poetry.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.