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.

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.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.