The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

We boil at different degrees.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.