We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

The surest poison is time.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!