We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.