Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.