He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.