Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.