Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

I want to meet my God awake.