The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.