Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.