Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'