How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.