Books are for nothing but to inspire

A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.