An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.