How can the Universe tell its own story save by making use of human…

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous — reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

Are there not many Arts which, though speechless, express their meanings with perfect adequacy, with satisfaction to the recipient, and serve at the same time as a medium of communication between soul and soul?

The spirit of fellowship, with its attendant cheerfulness, is in the air. It is comparatively easy to love one's neighbor when we realize that he and we are common servants and common sufferers in the same cause. A deep breath of that …

Better that the nation grow poor for a cause we can honor, than grow rich for an end that is unknown.

until this process has been accomplished is not the “meaning” a mere promise or unrealized potency?

Is not every man familiar with situations in his own life, when the needs of self-expression cannot be satisfied by saying any thing whatsoever times and occasions when, to make his fellows understand what he means, he must straight way do …