The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

The instinct of the people is right.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.