All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.