God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.