Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.