Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.