When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.