He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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.