Adult males are what their moms designed them.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.