Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.