The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.