The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.