Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

Fear is cruel and mean.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.