Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.