That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.