Of necessary dogmas and a special creed I shall speak later.

But that transcendentalism by which all men live has primarily much the position of the sun in the sky.

We are conscious of it as of a kind of splendid confusion; it is something both shining and shapeless, at once a blaze and a blur.

But the circle of the moon is as clear and unmistakable, as recurrent and inevitable, as the circle of Euclid on a blackboard.

For the moon is utterly reasonable; and the moon is the mother of lunatics and has given to them all her name..