What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

He is great who confers the most benefits.