If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

Friendship buys friendship.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.