We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'