Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

The highest end of government is the culture of men.