This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
The years teach much which the days never know.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,- a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
The soul is subject to dollars.
The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.
