Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.