People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.