Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

That man is idle who can do something better.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

The soul knows no persons.