Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.