There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.