Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.