Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.