My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Thought is the seed of action.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

The world exists for the education of each man.

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.