Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.