The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.