The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.