The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

There is always safety in valor.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.