The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.