The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.