He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.