We pass for what we are.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.