The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

Thought is the parent of the deed.