Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

A simple life is its own reward.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.