Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

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.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.