It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

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

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.