God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.