He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.