O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.