Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.