Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.