Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

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

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.