Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.