Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.