The hero is suffered to be himself.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.