There is no God dare wrong a worm.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.