Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.