Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.