Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.