There is no God dare wrong a worm.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?