If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.