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| A last judgment is necessary, because fools flourish. | 1 |
| A last judgment is not for making bad men better, but for hindering them from oppressing the good. | 2 |
| A machine is not a man or a work of art; it is destructive of humanity and art. | 3 |
| Accident ever varies; substance can never suffer change or decay. | 4 |
| Doth the eagle know what is in the pit, / Or wilt thou go ask the mole? | 5 |
| Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. | 6 |
| Error is created; truth is eternal. | 7 |
| Great things are done when men and mountains meet; / These are not done by jostling in the street. | 8 |
| He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. | 9 |
| He who mocks the infant’s faith / Shall be mock’d in age and death. | 10 |
| He’s a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can’t perceive, / And he’s a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe. | 11 |
| His opinion who does not see spiritual agency in history is not worth any man’s reading. | 12 |
| Imagination is Eternity. | 13 |
| In a commercial nation impostors are abroad in all professions. | 14 |
| Mathematic form is eternal in the reasoning memory; living form is eternal existence. | 15 |
| Names alter, things never alter. | 16 |
| Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden, and obliterate imagination in me. | 17 |
| Nature’s shadows are ever varying. | 18 |
| Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be, / For the gentle wind doth move / Silently, invisibly. | 19 |
| Nor is it possible to thought / A greater than itself to know. | 20 |
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| Opinions concerning acts are not history; acts themselves alone are history. | 21 |
| People must begin before they attempt to finish or improve. | 22 |
| The errors of a wise man make your rule / Rather than the perfections of a fool. | 23 |
| The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God. | 24 |
| The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion but realities of intellect, from which all passions emanate, uncurbed in their eternal glory. | 25 |
| To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour. | 26 |
| Unity and morality belong to philosophy, not to poetry. | 27 |
| When a base man means to be your enemy, he always begins with being your friend. | 28 |
| When a work has a unity, it is as much so in a part as in the whole. | 29 |
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