Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

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

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.