Now comes the mystery.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.