The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.