The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.