The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.