The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, and a Universal Blessing?

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

Boys and girls tumbling in the streets and playing are moving jewels.

Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.