The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.