With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.