Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.