Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints