To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?