All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.