The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.