The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.