It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.