He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!