Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.

I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.