Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.