We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.