To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
Each moment of the year has its own beauty.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.