Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.