though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.