Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

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.