Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.