By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.