The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
When a man meets his make, society begins.
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.