Let us leave hurry to slaves.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.