We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.