It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.