A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.