The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

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

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.