Light is the symbol of truth. [ Lowell ]

Woman is the symbol of moral and physical beauty. [ T. Gautier ]

The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past. [ Coleridge ]

The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past; the air and heaven, of futurity. [ Coleridge ]

Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self-command. [ Amiel ]

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. [ Emerson ]

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language. [ Mackintosh ]

What is man but a symbol of God, and all that he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to sense of the mystic God-given force that is in him? [ Carlyle ]

Books are the true metempsychosis, - they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep. [ Beecher ]

Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest. [ Carlyle ]

All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little; something which they value far more than for its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life. [ Theodore Parker ]

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]