Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
Nature admits no lie.
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
History is philosophy teaching by experience.
Man’s earthly interests,’are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
It is well said, in every sense, that a man’s religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.