Civilization depends on morality.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

Nature hates calculators.