The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.