The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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.

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 antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.