They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.