Nature Provides Exceptions To Every Rule.

Most Marvelous And Enviable Is That Fecundity Of Fancy Which Can Adorn Whatever It Touches, Which Can Invest Naked Fact And Dry Reasoning With Unlooked-for Beauty, Make Flowers Bloom Even On The Brow Of The Precipice, And, When Nothing Better Can Be Had, Can Turn The Very Substance Of Rock Itself Into Moss And Lichens. This Faculty Is Uncomparingly The Most Important For The Vivid And Attractive Exhibition Of Truth To The Minds Of Men.

We Cannot Have Expression Till There Is Something To Be Expressed.

Reverence The Highest, Have Patience With The Lowest. Let This Day's Performance Of The Meanest Duty Be Thy Religion. Are The Stars Too Distant, Pick Up The Pebble That Lies At Thy Feet, And From It Learn The All.

Man Can Never Come Up To His Ideal Standard. It Is The Nature Of The Immortal Spirit To Raise That Standard Higher And Higher As It Goes From Strength To Strength, Still Upward And Onward. The Wisest And Greatest Men Are Ever The Most Modest.

It Was Not Meant That The Soul Should Cultivate The Earth, But That The Earth Should Educate And Maintain The Soul.