Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.