It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
