Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.