This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

The world rests on principles.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.