Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.