All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

It is defeat which educates us.

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.