It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.