Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.