There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.