The finest wits have their sediment.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

The surest poison is time.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.