Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Civilization depends on morality.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.