Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.