The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
Nature admits no lie.
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.