But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

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

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.