We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.