The purpose of man is in action not thought.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

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

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!