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.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.