Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother..

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life ac….

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried..

A nation never falls but by suicide..

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven..

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile eithe….

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical fo….

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts..

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none..

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise..

In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me..

People seem sheathed in their tough organization..

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures perfo….

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is l….

For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon..

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other ex….

Great men are sincere..

I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be u….

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he ha….

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral..