FROM "THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR."

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Inaction is cowardice.

Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.

A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims.

First, one, then another, we drain all cis

terns, and waxing greater by all these supplies, we crave a better and more abundant food. The man has never lived that can feed us ever.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.

FROM "ADDRESS."

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected further

ance.

The spirit only can teach.

The man on whom the soul descends, through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach. Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can

teach; and every man can open his door to these angels.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,-life passed through the fire of thought.

Look to it first and only, that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money are nothing to you,—are not bandages over your eyes, that you can not see,—but live with the privilege of the immeasurable mind.

By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we inly were. Discharge to men the priestly office, and, present or absent, you shall be followed with their love as by an angel.

There are persons who are not actors; not speakers, but influences.

FROM "THE METHOD OF NATURE."

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

The one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use. That man shall be learned who reduceth his learning to practice.

FROM "THE TRANSCENDENTALIST."

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

FROM" LITERARY ETHICS."

Now that we are here we will put our own interpretation on things, and our own things for interpretation. Please himself with complaisance who will,-for me, things must take my scale, not I theirs. I will say with the warlike king, "God gave me this crown, and the whole world shall not take it away."

Not insulation of place, but independence of spirit is essential.

Be content with a little light, so it is your own. Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.

I feel perhaps the pain of an alien world; a world not yet subdued by thought; or I am cheered by the moist, warm, glittering, budding melodious hour, that takes down the narrow walls of my soul, and extends its life and pulsation to the very horizon. That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body, and to become as large as nature.

Let us study the uses of solitude and of society. Let us use both, not serve either.

FROM EACH AND ALL."

Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one:

Nothing is fair or good alone.