"The wonderful all-prevalent analogy that testifieth one Creator,

The broad arrow of the Great King carved on all the stores of His arsenal."

"The mind and the nature of God are shadowed in all His works,

And none could have guessed His essence, had He not uttered it Himself.

"For we learn upon a hint, we find a clue,

We yield an hundred-fold; but the great sower is analogy."

"Analogy is milk for babes, but abstract truths are strong meat;

Precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him:

In vain shalt thou preach of industry and prudence, till he learn of the bee and the ant;

Dimly will he think of his soul, till the acorns and the chrysalis have taught him;

He will fear God in the thunder, and worship His loveliness in flowers;

And parables shall charm his heart, while doctrines seem dead mystery;

Faith shall he learn of the husbandman casting good corn into the soil;

And if thou train him to trust thee, he will not withhold his reliance from the Lord."

"Wherefore it is wise and well to guide the mind aright,

So to talk of spirit by analogy with substance;

And analogy is a truer guide, than many teachers tell of,

Similitudes are scattered round to help us, not to hurt us;

Moses, in his every type, and the Greater than Moses, in His parables,

Preach, in terms that all may learn, the philosophic lessons of analogy;

And here, in a topic immaterial, the likeness of analogy is just."