Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn