Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.