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.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.