The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.