The poor are only they who feel poor.
All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.
Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
We often read with as much talent as we write.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Souls are not saved in bundles.