Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.