Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I can find no beauty, for I see death in every clause and every word. There is a fossil or a mummy character which pervades this book. The best sepulchers, the vastest catacombs, Thebes and Cairo, Pyramids, are sepulchers to me. I like gardens and nurseries. Give me initiative, spermatic, prophesying, man-making words.