I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.