“Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.”

“Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.”

“Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.”

“What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure, power, property, friends? you shall be the asylum and patron of every new thought, every unproven opinion, every untried project, which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking. All the newspapers, all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame what is noble; but you who hold not of to-day, not of the times, but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it: and the highest compliment, man ever receives from heaven, is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.”

“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”

“Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.”

“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”