Men are better than this theology.

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.