But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.