There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.