Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.