Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.