I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.