Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.