What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.