Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.