Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.