Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.