The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.