Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
I am a part and parcel of God.
Let him be great, and love shall follow him.
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
The hero is suffered to be himself.
There is no history; only biography.
In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.
How much finer things are in composition than alone.
Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
No society can ever be so large as one man.