If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.