A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.