Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.