We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.