Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Genius is intellect constructive.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.