“Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.”

“Scatter joy!”

“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.”

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”

“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.”

“Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.”

“There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.”