Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.