The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.