A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Labor is God's education.