This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.