Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.