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.

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means