As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.