The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.