The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
We read often with as much talent as we write.
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.