No man can have society upon his own terms.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.