It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.