Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.