There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Our prayers are prophets.

All vigor is contagious.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.