Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

God hides things by putting them near us.