At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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