After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.