Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.