A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.