Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.