We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.