I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

We can never have enough of Nature.

A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.