In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Science finds it methods.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.