There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.