All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

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

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.