We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

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.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.