Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

A man's perfection is his work.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.