One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.