An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.