The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.