In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.

Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

Conscience is an oracle of the Divinity.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

The world is governed by opinion.

True love is the parent of humility...

To me it seems that the soul, in all its higher actions, in original thought, in the creations of genius, in the soarings of imagination, in its love of beauty and grandeur, in its aspirations after a pure and unknown joy, and especially in disinterestedness, in the spirit of self-sacrifice, and in enlightened devotion, has a character of infinity.