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.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.