No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.