Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.