Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive