It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.