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 death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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