The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

I accept the universe!