For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

To Be is to live with God.