We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars