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.

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.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.