“It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
“What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?”
“Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.”
“Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.”
“Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.”
“I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.”
“We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.”
“We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.”
“A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.”
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
“Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.”
“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”
“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”
“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.”
“Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.”
“It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.”
“Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”
“If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.”
“Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.”
“There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.”
“We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.”
“Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.”
“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
“We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.”
“The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.”
“To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.”
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
“Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.”
“The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.”