I dance with the dancers.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.