Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Real action is in silent moments.