So one divine spirit descends on all, but bears a peculiar fruit in each. The divinity subsides on all men, as the snowflakes settle on the fields and ledges and takes the form of the various clefts and surfaces on which it lodges. The Sphinx hints that in the ages her secret is kept, but in the annihilation of ages alone it is revealed. So far from solving the problem of life, Time only serves to propose and keep it in. Time waits but for its solution to become eternity.
Great thoughts hallow any labor.
Today I earned seventy-five cents heaving manure out of a pen, and made a good bargain of it. If the ditcher muses the while how he may live uprightly, the ditching spade and turf knife may be engraved on the coat of arms of his posterity. It is the highest compliment to suppose that in the intervals of conversation your companion has expanded and grown. It may be a deference which he will not understand, but the nature which underlies him will understand it, and your influence will be shed as finely on him as the dust in the sun settles on our clothes. By such politeness we may educate one another to some purpose.