In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.