It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.