Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.