I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

Souls are not saved in bundles.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.