All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.