[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

A field of glory is a field for all.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.