An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.