The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.