If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track if good, forward.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.

A thinker is a person.