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.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

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?

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.