It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.