Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

We have more than we use.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.