"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
"My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive."
"To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking."