It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.