The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.