Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.