God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are!

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.