His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.