A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.