How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Laughter means sympathy.