O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.