Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.