No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.