Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.