In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.