Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.