We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

The life of truth is cold.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.