The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.