Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.