If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

The devil has his elect.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.