Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.