Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.