To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.