Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.