The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.