The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

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.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.