Nature is saturated with Deity.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.