To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.