Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.