I am a part and parcel of God.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.