In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.