A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.