Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.