I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul ’s best wisdom : home of truth, Star-throned.
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other’s rights and wrongs; thus are we men.
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
The value of a thought cannot be told.
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
We live not to ourselves, our work is life.
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
The temples perish, but the God still lives.
Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
The truth of truths is love.
Where doubt there truth is – ’tis her shadow.
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Art is a man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.