We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.