Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.