All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
Tis good-will makes intelligence.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
The pest of society is egotists.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.