Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.