Deep truth is imageless.

...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.