The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.