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

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.