“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?”

“Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.”

“O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!”

“If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now, and the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world, and still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose, and the air, and the sun.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”