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.

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

The great hope of society is in individual character

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.