The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.