There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.