Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.