The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

The religions we call false were once true.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Labor is God's education.

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.