A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.