In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.