Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.