The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

The years teach much which the days never know.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.