Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?