What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.