No one suspects the days to be gods.

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

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.